Lasers in Manufacturing (FL)

This group discusses the technologies used in manufacturing applications that employ both CW and pulsed lasers for cutting, drilling and welding processes. Also included in the scope of this group is the use of lasers to monitor processing and quality control in industrial manufacturing as well as other commercial usage of lasers such as surveying and alignment applications.

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Congratulations to Martynas Beresna, the new chair of the Lasers in Manufacturing Technical Group! If you are a member of this group and have ideas for activities and initiatives to help engage this community, please share them with Martynas as he begins his term as chair.

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Researchers have developed a way to use commercial inkjet printers and readily available ink to print hidden images that are only visible when illuminated with appropriately polarized waves in the terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The inexpensive method could be used as a type of invisible ink to hide information in otherwise normal-looking images, making it possible to distinguish between authentic and counterfeit items, for example.

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